diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index fdc037f..eb3aa33 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -133,10 +133,10 @@
    of the :class:`FancyURLopener` class and use it to perform their requested
    actions.  To override this functionality, programmers can create a subclass of
    :class:`URLopener` or :class:`FancyURLopener`, then assign an instance of that
-   class to the ``urllib._urlopener`` variable before calling the desired function.
-   For example, applications may want to specify a different
-   :mailheader:`User-Agent` header than :class:`URLopener` defines.  This can be
-   accomplished with the following code::
+   class to the ``urllib.request._urlopener`` variable before calling the
+   desired function.  For example, applications may want to specify a different
+   :mailheader:`User-Agent` header than :class:`URLopener` defines.
+   This can be accomplished with the following code::
 
       import urllib.request